Gay Birmingham Remembered

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• Jewish Lesbians Group, Birmingham 1980s
• Off to the asylum - 1861
• Fairy Towers

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• Subway changed the scene
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154. Clause 28 march
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158. clothes
159. Club Music
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200. Danny La Rue
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206. Derek Pemberton
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208. differences
209. Digbeth
210. Digbeth Civic Hall
211. Digbeth Institute
212. Digbeth Police Station
213. disability
214. Disability Discrimination Act
215. disabled
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217. Disco
218. discrimination
219. disease
220. Diva
221. Don't Die of Ignorance
222. Dorchester
223. drag
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229. Drill Hall
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232. Duran Duran
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234. DV8
235. Dykenosis
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237. Edgbaston
238. Education Group
239. egg sharing
240. El Sombrero
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242. Elton John
243. Employment Equality Sexual Orientation Regulations
244. Enigma
245. Eric Presland
246. Essex House
247. Estelle Morris
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251. Exchange Bar
252. Express and Star
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254. Farmers Bridge Locks
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261. Festival of Light
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268. Fountain
269. Fox
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271. Fred Barnes
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278. Gateways
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309. Gay Times
310. Gay Village
311. gay village
312. Gay Workers Rights Conference
313. Gay Youth Group
314. gay youth group
315. Gaydar
316. gays in the police
317. GaySoc
318. Gender bending
319. gender bending
320. George Melly
321. George Street
322. Girls' night
323. Gladrag
324. Glamorous
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326. Glenn Miller
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329. Graham Brogden
330. Gran Canaria
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332. Greyhound
333. Grosvenor
334. Grosvenor House Hotel
335. Growing Up Homosexual
336. Growing up Homosexual
337. Gudrun Limbrick
338. Guest Stars
339. Guild of Students
340. Gun Barrels
341. Guys
342. Guys Limited
343. Handsworth
344. Hanky Code
345. harassment
346. Harborne
347. Hare and Hounds
348. Harvey Milk
349. Heart
350. Helen Rose
351. Henrietta's Out
352. Heritage Lottery Fund
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356. Hilli Rishworth
357. Hippodrome
358. HIV
359. HIV / AIDS
360. HIV/AIDS
361. Holloway
362. Holloway Head
363. Holly Near
364. homophobia
365. homophobia in the workplace
366. homophobic
367. homophobic bullying
368. Homosexual Friends Fellowship
369. House
370. house parties
371. Howards Bar
372. HTLV III
373. Hughie Green
374. Hurst Street
375. Hype
376. identity
377. impact of ethnic background
378. Imperial
379. Imperial Hotel
380. In The Pink
381. Inge Street
382. Inge Thornton
383. Inner Ring Road
384. Insist
385. International Classification of Disease
386. International Women's Day
387. Internet
388. inverts
389. Islam
390. It's a Knockout
391. It's a knockout
392. IVF
393. Ivor Geffin
394. Jackie Russell
395. Jaycee
396. Jenny lives with Eric and Martin
397. Jeremy Thorpe
398. Jester
399. Jewellery Quarter
400. Jewish
401. Jewish and Arab women
402. Jewish Lesbians Group
403. Jewish women's group
404. Jill Knight
405. Jim Callaghan
406. Jimmy Edwards
407. Jimmy's bar
408. Jimmys Bar
409. Jo Joes
410. Jo Joes Picket
411. John Curry
412. John Jeffries
413. John Jeffries aka Jinks
414. John Walters
415. Judy Small
416. Jug
417. Julia Radcliffe
418. Kardomah
419. Karen Creavin
420. Keith Campbell
421. Ken Livingstone
422. Kennedy Gardens
423. Kenneth Williams
424. Kenric
425. Kent Street
426. Kerb Crawling Song
427. Ketamine
428. Key Books
429. Khan and Bell
430. Kill the Bill
431. King's Heath
432. Kings Heath
433. Kingstanding
434. Kipper Club
435. Kyla Skinner
436. Labour
437. Labour Government
438. Labour Party
439. Ladywood
440. Larry Grayson
441. Laurie Williams
442. laws
443. Lee Bank
444. Leeds
445. Legends
446. Legends Club
447. Legislation pre twentieth century
448. LesBeWell
449. Lesbewell
450. lesbian
451. Lesbian and Gay community Centre
452. Lesbian and Gay Community Centre
453. Lesbian and Gay Community Centre Aston
454. Lesbian and Gay Community Centre newsletter
455. Lesbian and Gay Fellowship
456. Lesbian and Gay News West Midlands
457. Lesbian and Gay Staff Support Group
458. Lesbian and Gay Switchboard newsletter
459. Lesbian and Gay Youth Movement
460. lesbian conference
461. lesbian disco
462. lesbian feminist
463. lesbian feminist meetings
464. lesbian feminists
465. lesbian group
466. lesbian health
467. lesbian health conferences
468. Lesbian Line
469. lesbian mother
470. lesbian mothers
471. Lesbian rights
472. lesbian separatists
473. lesbian youth workers' forum
474. Lesbos
475. Lesley Pattenson
476. LGB staff group at Staffordshire County Council
477. LGBT Alcohol Support Group
478. Library
479. Library Theatre
480. licencing laws
481. Lionel
482. lock ins
483. London
484. London Lesbian and Gay Centre
485. London Partnership Register
486. London Pride
487. Longbridge
488. Lord Raglan
489. Lottery
490. Louise Christian
491. Love your enemy
492. Lyn David Thomas
493. MAC
494. Maggie Kirkpatrick
495. Malcolm Gibb
496. Malt Shovel
497. Manchester
498. Manchester Pride
499. Mark Bestel
500. married
501. Martin Cole
502. Martin Healey
503. Martin Monahan
504. Mary Whitehouse
505. masculinity
506. Mass Camp
507. Matador
508. Mature Gay Men's Group
509. Maypole
510. Meg Christian
511. members' club
512. mental health
513. Meriel Bloor
514. Metropolitan Community Church
515. Mexicana
516. Michael Cashman
517. Michael Hutchinson
518. Midlands Arts Centre
519. Midlands Zone
520. Midlands Zone Readers' Awards
521. Mike Chamberlain
522. miners' strikes
523. Missing
524. Moseley
525. Moseley Road Baths
526. Moseley Shoals
527. moving to Birmingham
528. Museum and Art Gallery
529. Muslim
530. Myra Connell
531. NALGO
532. National Front
533. National Lesbian and Gay Youth Movement
534. National Lottery Grant
535. Navy
536. Nechells
537. Nechells Green
538. Neil Matthews
539. Neill Matthews
540. New Street Station
541. NHS
542. Nick Stanley
543. Nightingale
544. Nightingale Thorp St
545. Noelle Gordon
546. Norman and Betty Webb
547. North West Committee for Homosexual Law Reform
548. Old Mo
549. Old Moseley Arms
550. older gay men
551. older lesbian
552. older lesbians
553. Older Lesbians' Network
554. Oscar Wilde
555. Out Central
556. Out of the Shadows
557. Out This Week
558. OUTburst
559. Outpost
560. Outrage
561. Outskirts
562. Outspeak
563. Outspoken
564. Outwrite
565. OVA
566. Ova
567. paedophile
568. Palestinian women's groups
569. pansy
570. Pantheon
571. Partners
572. Pat Howie
573. Patriarchy Study Group
574. Patrick Edwards
575. Patty Bell
576. Peace Centre
577. Peacock's
578. Peacocks
579. Peacocks at the New Imperial
580. Peacocks discos
581. Pearly Gates
582. Personal adverts
583. Pete Kirby
584. Phil Oldershaw
585. picket
586. Pink Paper
587. Pink Picnic
588. pink triangle
589. Polari
590. Police
591. police
592. Police and gay activity
593. Police Forum
594. Police Liaison Group
595. political activism
596. political groups
597. political lesbian
598. political lesbians
599. politics
600. pool
601. Pool
602. poppers
603. Poppers
604. Power House
605. Powerhouse
606. Pressure to be heterosexual
607. pressure to be straight
608. Pride
609. Pride 1997
610. Pride 2001
611. Pride 2005
612. Pride 2006
613. Pride 2007
614. Pride Ball
615. Pride Parade
616. Princip Street
617. Prisoner Cell Block H
618. psychiatric
619. psychiatrist
620. Psychiatry
621. publications
622. Publicity Officer
623. Purple Room
624. Quaker
625. Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship
626. Quakers
627. queer
628. Queer as Folk
629. queer bashed
630. Queer Politics
631. Queer Question Time
632. Quentin Crisp
633. race
634. racism
635. Radclyffe Hall
636. Radical Drag
637. Radical Fairies
638. radical feminist
639. Rainbow Flag
640. Rainbow Voices
641. Rape Crisis
642. Rape Crisis Centre
643. Register Office
644. relations with the police
645. relationship
646. religion
647. rent boys
648. revolutionary feminism
649. Revolutionary Feminism
650. Revolutionary Feminist
651. revolutionary feminist
652. Revolutionary Feminist Conference
653. Revolutionary Feminists
654. Revolutionary feminists
655. revolutionary feminists
656. Richard Dyer
657. Rod Griffiths
658. Route 2
659. Route 66
660. Roy Jenkins
661. Rubyfruit
662. Rugby
663. Sadistic Sisters
664. Samaritans
665. Sandwell
666. Sappho
667. sauna
668. Saunas
669. school
670. SCUM Manifesto
671. SCUM manifesto
672. Section 28
673. Selly Oak
674. Selly Park
675. separatism
676. separatists
677. Setting Up Switchboard
678. Sex Clubs
679. Sexual Offences Act
680. Sexual Offences Act 1954
681. sexual politics
682. Shakespeare
683. Sheila's Bar
684. Shirley Bassey
685. Signing Group
686. Sikh
687. Silver Slipper
688. Silver Web
689. Simeon Solomon
690. Sir Dick Knowles
691. sixth demand
692. SLAG
693. SLAP FM
694. Slap FM
695. Slice of Lemon
696. Smallbrook Queensway
697. smoking
698. Snow Hill Station
699. socialist
700. socialist feminism
701. socialist feminist
702. Socialist Feminist
703. socialist feminist lesbian
704. Socialist feminists
705. socialist feminists
706. society
707. sodomy
708. Sombrero
709. South Staffordshire Council
710. Southside
711. Spare Rib
712. Sparkhill
713. Spartacus
714. split
715. sport
716. sports
717. sporty
718. sporty lesbian
719. St Philip's Cathedral
720. Staffordshire County Council
721. Staffordshire County Council's Lesbian and Gay Sta
722. Star Club
723. Station
724. Station Pub
725. Station Street
726. status quo
727. Steering Wheel
728. Steptoes
729. Steve Bedser
730. Stonewall
731. Straightsville
732. stripper
733. Strumpet
734. Subway City
735. Sundissential
736. Super Pricks
737. Switchboard
738. Switchboard Operator
739. Switchboard operators
740. Sybil
741. Symphony Hall
742. teacher
743. Telecom Tower
744. Temple Bar
745. Temple Street
746. terminology
747. Terrence Higgins Trust
748. Tettenhall
749. Thatcher
750. The Cuckoo's Nest
751. The Killing of Sister George
752. The Royal Court of Campania
753. The Triangle Committee
754. The Woodman
755. Theresa Stuart
756. Thorp Street
757. Three Mile Oak
758. THT
759. Tin Can
760. Tin Tins
761. Tindal Press
762. Tindal Street
763. Tindal Street Press
764. Tindal Street School
765. Tom Robinson
766. tomboys
767. Tony Blair
768. Tony De Vit
769. Tony de Vit
770. Tony Page
771. Tow Rope
772. Towards a Quaker view of sex
773. Town Hall
774. Trade Union
775. transsexual
776. transvestites
777. Trevor Sword
778. Triangle Arts Centre
779. Trocadero
780. Trollettes
781. Troops out of Ireland
782. Twiggy
783. UKIP
784. Union Club
785. unique
786. unisex
787. Unison
788. university
789. Valerie Solanis
790. Venus
791. Viagra
792. Victoria
793. Victoria Club
794. Victoria Square
795. Viking
796. Village
797. Village Inn
798. Village People
799. Vinegar Tits
800. violence against women
801. Vivienne Westwood
802. Voice
803. W H Auden
804. Wages For Housework
805. Walsall Gay Men's Group
806. Wandering Minstrel
807. Wash
808. Well of Loneliness
809. Wellington
810. West Midlands County Council
811. West Midlands Lesbian and Gay Switchboard
812. West Midlands Police
813. West Midlands Residuary Body
814. White Swan
815. William Frank Brownhill
816. Windmill
817. Winson Green
818. WIRES
819. Witton Lane
820. Wolfenden
821. Wolverhampton
822. Wombourne
823. Wombourne 12
824. Wombourne March
825. Women against Racism and Fascism
826. Women Against Violence Against Women
827. Women and Words
828. women only
829. women only night
830. Women Oppose the Nuclear Threat
831. women's access to bars
832. Women's Aid
833. Women's Army
834. Women's Big Band
835. Women's Centre
836. Women's Committee
837. women's disco
838. women's discos
839. women's events
840. women's events
841. Women's Festival
842. women's groups
843. Women's Groups
844. Women's Liberation
845. Women's Liberation Conference
846. Women's Liberation Day Conferences
847. women's liberation movement
848. Women's Liberation Movement
849. Women's Liberation movement
850. Women's Liberation Playgroup
851. women's movement
852. Women's Music
853. women's music
854. women's politics
855. Women's Refuge
856. Women's Revolutions Per Minute
857. Women's Self Defence
858. Women's Swing Band
859. Women's Swing Band
860. women's venues
861. women's writing group
862. Woodman
863. Worcester
864. work
865. Workers Educational Association
866. World AIDS Day
867. World War II
868. World War II Blitz
869. Young Lesbians Group
870. Youth Clubs
871. Youth Group
872. youth group
873. youth work
874. Zap
875. Zebedees
876. Zig Zag